Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Rosalind Helena de Tapley Dare was born in 1871 in Dunedin – the eldest daughter of Henry Thomas de Tapley Dare, a seaman, and Anna Fyfe Hereford Moir.
Her father deserted the family in the early 1880’s leaving her mother with five young children.
In June 1883 the children were charged with being “neglected children” as “their mother was unable to support them”.
The children appear to have returned to their mother at the end of 1884 and when Rosalind signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Union Street working as a tailoress. Rosalind married Alexander Binnie, a wireworker, in 1897 and they had four children.
They lived in Maori Hill, Dunedin before moving to Springvale near Alexandra about 1920.
Alexander died in Dunedin in 1923 and Rosalind died on 26 May 1957 – they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources :
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
